It’s a social world

Will social trading do for investing what social media has done for truth and the mental well-being of the affluent world’s adolescents? Recall that social media was once a beacon of hope thanks to its ability to shine a light on the grubby behaviour of all those in authority who would lie, cheat and dissemble, the proof of which was its role in triggering 2011’s Arab Spring. Yet now it has become the dissemblers’ tool of choice thanks to its unrivalled ability to foster outrage and anger.